Princess Viktoria of Prussia
Princess Victoria of Prussia, Friederike Amalia Wilhelmine full name Victoria of Prussia, VA ( born April 12, 1866 the New Palace in Potsdam, † November 13, 1929 in Bonn) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and by marriage Princess of Schaumburg -Lippe. Since 1927 it was called after re- marriage Viktoria Zoubkoff and published as "Victoria Zoubkoff, born Princess of Prussia and related products. Princess of Schaumburg- Lippe " in 1929 her memoirs.
Life
Victoria was the second daughter of eight children of the Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm and later German Emperor Frederick III. (1831-1888) and his wife, the Princess Royal Victoria (1840-1901), known as Empress Frederick. She was a younger sister of Crown Prince Wilhelm, later German Emperor Wilhelm II and King of Prussia. She was named after her grandmother and godmother Queen Victoria. Within the family she was called Moretta. Princess Victoria grew up in Berlin, under the supervision of various educators and teachers in the imperial palace.
In 1883 she became engaged to the mother's consent to Prince Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria. But her grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm I and Chancellor Otto von Bismarck were for political reasons against the betrothal and marriage banned. For years fought Viktoria vain against the ban, but especially Bismarck decided opposed it. 1889, the engagement of reasons of state was finally solved.
A year later learned Victoria Prince Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe (1859-1916), whom the fourth son of Prince Adolf I Georg and his wife Princess Hermine of Waldeck and Pyrmont; The occasion was a visit to the Princess of Wied, mother of Queen Carmen Sylva of Romania. They became engaged shortly after and were married in November of the same year in Berlin. After an extended honeymoon in different countries, the couple took up residence in Bonn. To do this, bought the villa was built in 1858-1860 the textile merchant Wilhelm Loeschigk, today's " Palais Schaumburg ". After a miscarriage the marriage remained childless. Died in 1916 Prince Adolf of Schaumburg -Lippe, and Victoria lonely.
She was always eccentric and met in 1927 the 34 year younger Russian adventurer Alexander Zoubkoff, who pretended to be a disenfranchised by the revolution nobleman. In the same year they were married, which led to a major scandal. After a few months, broke up the marriage, and Zoubkoff, who took all their assets to be reported in 1928. He went to Luxembourg and worked there as a waiter. The restaurant advertised with a sign that read: " Your contact the brother of the emperor ".
Victoria remained in Bonn and published her memoirs lack of money in the Bonn " General-Anzeiger ". Among the population it was until recently extremely popular. Her estate was auctioned in 1929 in the riding hall of the Palais Schaumburg from Cologne Art Lempertz.
Autobiography
- Viktoria Zoubkoff: What gave me life - and took. With an afterword by Horst -Jürgen angle. Bouvier, Bonn 2005, ISBN 3-416-03071-0 ( first edition in book form ).